A new report has shed light on business connectivity issues which are set to dominate the thoughts of IT staff in the coming years.
The Evolving Internet publication from Cisco and the Monitor Group's Global Business Network outlines four scenarios in which different pathways over the future of the web are considered.
It also highlights five trends that are emerging in the field, including that consumers will pay for internet connectivity in a wider range of ways than just flat pricing.
Enrique Rueda-Sabater, report co-author and Cisco's director of strategy and economics for emerging markets, said: "The next two or three billion internet users will be mostly in emerging markets and very different from the first two billion; global business models and national policies will fail if they are based on old expectations of behaviour, preferences and success."
The release of the report has come after Diane Myers, directing analyst for service provider VoIP and IMS at Infonetics Research, suggested that IP-to-IP connectivity is overtaking IP-to-TDM alternatives.